Is There Life After New Jersey?

The songs of Miami Steve Van Zandt are like found objects; he zeroes in on a particular species of East Coast rhythm and blues, mixes together the standard elements and emerges with a song that echoes and reverberates. As a composer, arranger and producer, he has an extraordinary sense of dynamics, of how to build dramatically and push the song home, and it's Van Zandt who's the real story behind This Time It's For Real.